Weekly Drabbles #271 — A New Bedmate— BtVS / Spuffy [PG-13]
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veronyxk84
Title: A New Bedmate
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Author:
veronyxk84Characters/Pairing: Buffy/Spike
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: none
Word count: 100 (Google Docs)
Spoilers/Setting: Set post series, in an alternate reality where Buffy and Spike are an established couple.
Summary: Buffy found out that Spike complained to Xander about her snoring, so she takes a little revenge on him.
Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction created for fun and no profit has been made. All rights belong to the respective owners.
Challenge: #486 - Revenge by
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fan_flashworks Prompt: #453 - Complaint by
100words Challenges: #222 Bad Habits + #278 Snuggle by
drabble_zone [Amnesty #46] Crossposted: Sunnydale After Dark
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Collage Journaling: Happy August!
Aug. 1st, 2025 05:13 pmstonepicnicking_okapiMinisculus decided August's theme color should be sky blue. The postcard is courtesy of oldtoadwoman.
oldtoadwoman. 
allbingo Crime Classics Bingo Card
Aug. 1st, 2025 05:58 pmthisbluespiritOkay, I knoooooow I am being rubbish at all my other bingos currently, but if allbingo's August theme happens to be irresistible, everything will be different this time, right? XD
(Tbf, the odds are rather better than the last few weeks anyway...)
But, I give you a Crime Classics Bingo Card made from titles from the British Library's crime catalogue:
I love it. I even got the source for The Lady Vanishes, go me! Any suggestions? (With the usual caveat of me probably doing something else anyway, heh.)
allbingo's August theme happens to be irresistible, everything will be different this time, right? XD(Tbf, the odds are rather better than the last few weeks anyway...)
But, I give you a Crime Classics Bingo Card made from titles from the British Library's crime catalogue:
| Someone from the Past | He Who Whispers | Tour de Force | Fear Stalks the Village | Antidote to Venom |
| Family Matters | Foreign Bodies | Tea on Sunday | It Walks by Night | Green for Danger |
| Settling Scores | As If By Magic | WILD CARD | The Black Spectacles | Somebody at the Door |
| Twice Round the Clock | The Man Who Didn’t Fly | Excellent Intentions | Crossed Skis | Serpents in Eden |
| The Wheel Spins | Final Acts | Deep Waters | Not to Be Taken | Bats in the Belfry |
I love it. I even got the source for The Lady Vanishes, go me! Any suggestions? (With the usual caveat of me probably doing something else anyway, heh.)
Meme: 20 Questions For Fanfic Writers
Jul. 31st, 2025 10:27 pmflareonfuryQuestions are from kitarella_imagines. Figured this would be great for the Fannish 50.
1. How many works do you have on AO3?
145 works (I don't think I've quite updated all my fics to AO3, so check outharpiewriting for a complete list pre-2014 when I kinda stopped using LJ for the most part. I'll have to add those works to the community.)
2. What’s your total AO3 word count?
154,381 words. (Again I don't think I've quite updated all my fics to AO3, so check outharpiewriting for a complete list pre-2014 when I kinda stopped using LJ for the most part. I'll have to add those works to the community.)
3. What fandoms do you write for?
So many.... the ones with the most works are Smallville, X-Men, Harry Potter, Fantastic Four, Supernatural, Wizards of Waverly Place, and the Arrowverse.
4. What are your top five fics by kudos?
kitarella_imagines. Figured this would be great for the Fannish 50. 1. How many works do you have on AO3?
145 works (I don't think I've quite updated all my fics to AO3, so check out
harpiewriting for a complete list pre-2014 when I kinda stopped using LJ for the most part. I'll have to add those works to the community.) 2. What’s your total AO3 word count?
154,381 words. (Again I don't think I've quite updated all my fics to AO3, so check out
harpiewriting for a complete list pre-2014 when I kinda stopped using LJ for the most part. I'll have to add those works to the community.) 3. What fandoms do you write for?
So many.... the ones with the most works are Smallville, X-Men, Harry Potter, Fantastic Four, Supernatural, Wizards of Waverly Place, and the Arrowverse.
4. What are your top five fics by kudos?
- Daughter of Iron Man (MCU, Darcy Lewis centric) - 1176 kudos
- not so simple (broken smile) (MCU, Darcy/Bucky) - 354 kudos
- Alternate Slice Girl (Supernatural, Dean & Emma) - 246 kudos
- so I'll kiss you like I'm gonna lose you (Arrowverse, Sara/Leonard) - 230 kudos
- scent temptation (Arrowverse, Sara/Leonard) - 192 kudos
The State of the Ficcery: July 2025
Jul. 31st, 2025 04:49 pmstonepicnicking_okapiWord Count for July: 14,628
Writing:
1. I participated in the Sunshine Challege.
2. 2 poems
3. Kept the soap opera going.
In August:
1. Keep the soap opera going.
2. Catch up on poems.
3. Get back to doing fills for comms.
Reading: 7 books. 4 of these were Mother Son book club books. 1 was an Agatha Christie.
In August:
1. Complete the bingo.
2. Read The Clocks.
3. Finish The Hound of the Baskerville for Sherlock Sunday.
Crafting: 7 spreads and 4 cards. 1 jigsaw puzzle.
The boys and their father are going to be gone for 4 days in August and I'm planning a time of lots of reading, collaging, planning and working on craft projects, and at least one jigsaw.
Fitness:
1. 16 days of Yoga with Adriene. She's still the only yogi I like.
In August:
1. I need to sign us up for the Turkey Trot (Thanksgiving) and work on getting my 5k faster. Since the job started, I have started doing my long runs on either Saturday (preferred before the weekly shopping, as early as I can haul my fat ass out of bed) or Sunday morning. I try to get there before the running groups start their stampedes.
2. I want to read up on some forearm/hand stretches to improve the pain in my left arm/elbow area. Back stretches wouldn't go amiss either.
3. I'm down 5 lbs. but of course that's up 4 lbs from 1 Jan.
Personal:
1. Survived leak #2 without sleeping in the car or fleeing to a motel.
2. Got a job! Started working! Dealt with being a working mom! Got a paycheck!
3. I managed to get all of Minor's paperwork (physical, birth certificate, forms, etc.) to run cross country in high school uploaded.
5. Did decently with picking out my sister's birthday gifts this year.
6. Got 90% of Minisculus' school supplies and ordered two whole sets of dress clothes for the boys without losing my sanity.
7. Played 2 new-to-us games: 2 EXIT games and Canvas.
7a. Took the kids to the pool twice.
8. Said goodbye to a very old, very dear friend (okapi car). I'm still crying about this. I don't know when I'll stop.
Writing:
1. I participated in the Sunshine Challege.
2. 2 poems
3. Kept the soap opera going.
In August:
1. Keep the soap opera going.
2. Catch up on poems.
3. Get back to doing fills for comms.
Reading: 7 books. 4 of these were Mother Son book club books. 1 was an Agatha Christie.
In August:
1. Complete the bingo.
2. Read The Clocks.
3. Finish The Hound of the Baskerville for Sherlock Sunday.
Crafting: 7 spreads and 4 cards. 1 jigsaw puzzle.
The boys and their father are going to be gone for 4 days in August and I'm planning a time of lots of reading, collaging, planning and working on craft projects, and at least one jigsaw.
Fitness:
1. 16 days of Yoga with Adriene. She's still the only yogi I like.
In August:
1. I need to sign us up for the Turkey Trot (Thanksgiving) and work on getting my 5k faster. Since the job started, I have started doing my long runs on either Saturday (preferred before the weekly shopping, as early as I can haul my fat ass out of bed) or Sunday morning. I try to get there before the running groups start their stampedes.
2. I want to read up on some forearm/hand stretches to improve the pain in my left arm/elbow area. Back stretches wouldn't go amiss either.
3. I'm down 5 lbs. but of course that's up 4 lbs from 1 Jan.
Personal:
1. Survived leak #2 without sleeping in the car or fleeing to a motel.
2. Got a job! Started working! Dealt with being a working mom! Got a paycheck!
3. I managed to get all of Minor's paperwork (physical, birth certificate, forms, etc.) to run cross country in high school uploaded.
5. Did decently with picking out my sister's birthday gifts this year.
6. Got 90% of Minisculus' school supplies and ordered two whole sets of dress clothes for the boys without losing my sanity.
7. Played 2 new-to-us games: 2 EXIT games and Canvas.
7a. Took the kids to the pool twice.
8. Said goodbye to a very old, very dear friend (okapi car). I'm still crying about this. I don't know when I'll stop.
Book Bingo 2025: July
Jul. 31st, 2025 03:31 pmstonepicnicking_okapiThis bingo card was created by kingstoken. More about the challenge here: https://kingstoken.dreamwidth.org/109837.html
POC Author: On Junteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed. This is a slim book of 5 essays, and four of them are not about Junteenth, they are about the history of African Americans in Texas. The author is an excellent historian and researcher. I started her book on The Hemmings family (Thomas Jefferson's slave family) but gave up after about 25%. It was good but very dense.
Classic/Retelling: Charlotte's Web by E.B. White. This is the story of a pig who befriends a spider who saves the pig from being butchered. [I am also trying to do as many squares as I can ofgaronne's 2025 Book Bingo here: https://garonne.dreamwidth.org/58219.html so I think this qualifies as G-O-2: with a bird on the cover. There is a goose.]
Free Space: Holes by Louis Sachar. This is part of the mother-son book club and won the Newberry award. It's the story of a boy who gets sent to a brutal reform camp which is basically a work camp to try to dig up a lost treasure in the desert. Clever plot. It doesn't quite go where you think it's going. And there are clever elements. [I think this qualifies for Garonne's G-G-5: Started reading without knowing anything about it. Even the cover doesn't give much away.]
With a Woman Protagonist: I am assuming girls count for this. Rain Reign is another mother-son book club book about a girl with Asperger's and a dog she gets and loses. Also about her alcoholic father and the girl's homonym fixation.
Set Somewhere You've Been: Death in Zanzibar by M. M. Kaye is sort of like Bridget Jones goes to Zanzibar and gets caught up in a mystery. Very blah. Some local color, as they say, but it wasn't anything to get excited about.
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Books for the last squares are in progress so I should complete it by the end of August.
kingstoken. More about the challenge here: https://kingstoken.dreamwidth.org/109837.html
POC Author: On Junteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed. This is a slim book of 5 essays, and four of them are not about Junteenth, they are about the history of African Americans in Texas. The author is an excellent historian and researcher. I started her book on The Hemmings family (Thomas Jefferson's slave family) but gave up after about 25%. It was good but very dense.
Classic/Retelling: Charlotte's Web by E.B. White. This is the story of a pig who befriends a spider who saves the pig from being butchered. [I am also trying to do as many squares as I can of
garonne's 2025 Book Bingo here: https://garonne.dreamwidth.org/58219.html so I think this qualifies as G-O-2: with a bird on the cover. There is a goose.]Free Space: Holes by Louis Sachar. This is part of the mother-son book club and won the Newberry award. It's the story of a boy who gets sent to a brutal reform camp which is basically a work camp to try to dig up a lost treasure in the desert. Clever plot. It doesn't quite go where you think it's going. And there are clever elements. [I think this qualifies for Garonne's G-G-5: Started reading without knowing anything about it. Even the cover doesn't give much away.]
With a Woman Protagonist: I am assuming girls count for this. Rain Reign is another mother-son book club book about a girl with Asperger's and a dog she gets and loses. Also about her alcoholic father and the girl's homonym fixation.
Set Somewhere You've Been: Death in Zanzibar by M. M. Kaye is sort of like Bridget Jones goes to Zanzibar and gets caught up in a mystery. Very blah. Some local color, as they say, but it wasn't anything to get excited about.
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Books for the last squares are in progress so I should complete it by the end of August.
⌛ My Content — July Updates
Jul. 31st, 2025 09:04 pmveronyxk84
Here’s a complete list of new stories and/or story updates that I published in the month of July, 2025.
All my stories are Sunnydale After Dark Exclusives, with the exception of drabble entries for Dreamwidth communities.
Total words published: 19,226
Total words written: 11,165
Status of mygetyourwordsout 75k Word Count pledge for the year:
118,529 words / 158.04%
Total words written: 11,165
Status of my
getyourwordsout 75k Word Count pledge for the year:118,529 words / 158.04%
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some fandom events
Jul. 30th, 2025 11:11 pmsvgurlfallingforyoufallexchange, an exchange dedicated to getting together romance tropes set in the fall, is still open for sign-ups until July 31st, 8PM EDT. thestoryinside, a community where you get assigned a buddy to pick a few books off your TBR based on the voted on themes and vice versa, is opened for August sign-ups. They will close at the end of the day on July 31st. ficinabox is open for Nomination Pre-Gaming, where you can request transfers from last year's tagset into the new one, until August 2nd. ships_crossing, a multifandom exchange that celebrates crossovers and fusions, is accepting nominations until August 8th, 10PM EDT.seasonsofdrabbles, an exchange for the creation of drabbles and drabble variants that runs once a season, has opened nominations for its Summer Round until August 11th, 11:59PM EDT. sunflower_auction, an online fanworks auction, designed to raise money for nonprofit organizations that support the people of Ukraine, is open for creator sign-ups until August 13th, 11:59PM UTC.Word: Dolmen
Jul. 30th, 2025 09:48 pmstonepicnicking_okapiWednesday's word is...
...dolmen.
a megalithic tomb with a large flat stone laid on upright ones, found chiefly in Britain and France.
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I found it in the new detective novel I'm reading Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann.
Othello disappeared into the shadow of the dolmen near the place where George lay pinned to the ground by the spade.
[Note: Othello is a sheep]
...dolmen.
a megalithic tomb with a large flat stone laid on upright ones, found chiefly in Britain and France.
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I found it in the new detective novel I'm reading Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann.
Othello disappeared into the shadow of the dolmen near the place where George lay pinned to the ground by the spade.
[Note: Othello is a sheep]
✨ Spuffy Fic Recs — July 2025
Jul. 30th, 2025 10:41 amveronyxk84Check this tag to catch up!
Find my Fic Recs on Tumblr as well
I present a list of 5 Spuffy fics I’ve read in July.
They’re all complete, some recent, some older (I’m going through my bookshelf), and all links are for Sunnydale After Dark.
(NOTE: some or all may be available on other archives as well).
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Weekly Drabbles #270 — Fists and Fangs — BtVS / Spike [PG-13]
Jul. 30th, 2025 09:01 amveronyxk84Title: Fists and Fangs
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Characters/Pairing: Spike
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: none
Word count: 100 (Google Docs)
Setting/Spoilers: Set in S4, some time between eps. 4x03 “The Harsh Light of Day” and 4x06 “Wild at Heart”
Summary: Spike decides that losing the Gem of Amara isn’t all that bad.
Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction created for fun and no profit has been made. All rights belong to the respective owners.
Challenge: #400 - Daylight by
anythingdrabbleChallenge: [July 10 out of 20] - Challenge by
sweetandshortCrossposted: Sunnydale After Dark
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News & Views: Strange grief
Jul. 29th, 2025 08:01 pmstonepicnicking_okapi1. So the boys' father & Minor were in a car accident on Thursday (nobody was hurt) and it looks like I may have to say goodbye to my car (the original okapi, part of my username origin story). I know logically that it is just an object, a possession, a material good. It means much, much more to me than the insurance company valuation. I have had it for 19 years. I inherited it from my father when he passed away. He bought it and only had it for a couple of years before he died. He needed a minivan to accommodate his oxygen tank when he was going through his cancer treatments. The car was with me before I was a wife and mother, and we've been through a lot together. It's hard to grieve objects because I know it isn't very spiritual, but I am very sad tonight. It has been a good friend and don't want to say goodbye yet.
2. Work is okay. I took the boys to the library today. I am glad Minisculus still likes to read. Minor has lost his interest in reading.
3. I ordered Minsculus' school supplies from Target online and it was cheaper than the school PTA system. I don't like giving $$$ to Target but it saved me some money and a lot of stress. I will pick them up tomorrow at the store. I never buy Minor's supplies early because every teacher has their own thing and they will tell them the first week of school. School starts 25 Aug here.
4. July is flying by.
2. Work is okay. I took the boys to the library today. I am glad Minisculus still likes to read. Minor has lost his interest in reading.
3. I ordered Minsculus' school supplies from Target online and it was cheaper than the school PTA system. I don't like giving $$$ to Target but it saved me some money and a lot of stress. I will pick them up tomorrow at the store. I never buy Minor's supplies early because every teacher has their own thing and they will tell them the first week of school. School starts 25 Aug here.
4. July is flying by.